Derived forms

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Word forms: friendlier, friendliest, friendlies

Definitions

1. graded adjective & adjective

If someone is friendly, they behave in a pleasant, kind way, and like to be with other people. ⇒ Godfrey had been friendly to me. ⇒ ...a man with a pleasant, friendly face. ⇒ Robert has a friendly relationship with his customers. ⇒ ...a friendly atmosphere. ⇒ Your cat isn't very friendly.

friendlinessuncountable noun ⇒ She also loves the friendliness of the people.

2. graded adjective & adjective [v-link ADJ]

If you are friendlywith someone, you like each other and enjoyspending time together. [+ with] ⇒ I'm friendly with his mother. ⇒ Asmus became friendly with a number of writers and appeared in print as a literary critic.

3. graded adjective & adjective

You can describe another country or their government as friendly when they have good relations with your own country rather than being an enemy. ⇒ ...a worsening in relations between the two previously friendly countries.

4. countable noun

In sport, a friendly is a match which is not part of a competition, and is played for entertainment or practice, often without any seriouseffort to win. [British] ⇒ Athletic Bilbao agreed to play a friendly at Real Sociedad.

Friendly is also an adjective. ⇒ Austria beat Hungary 3-nil in a friendly match at Salzburg on Wednesday.regional note: in AM, use exhibition game

Example sentences containing 'friendly'

It had been a birthday present from a friendly roadie who'd stolen it from a Hilton room.Val McDermid DEAD BEATGryf was still on the beer, his lack of neck curiously friendly now.Robert Wilson BLOOD IS DIRTEven the Wall, that raised scar across the face of the city, could look friendly in the snow.Robert Wilson THE COMPANY OF STRANGERSYou understand confidentiality, being a lawyer and all," Brewster said, feigning a friendly smile.Phillip Margolin THE ASSOCIATE